In the Netherlands, hunter-gatherers of the Swifterbant culture start using pottery around 5000 BC and carry out crop agriculture around 4200 BC. But they also hunt, fish, and gather wild resources, and migrate seasonally 🐟🐗🌰 4/
Our biggest discovery? These people weren't just keeping cattle, they had TWO completely different herds of cattle 🐄🐄The isotopes of the cattle (and sheep!) showed that one herd had lived in the forest 🌲 while the other grazed either on salt marshes or on manured fields 💩 7/
#PPOD: The shadow is not that of Europa but a second moon (Io), which is not in this frame. Europa is slightly smaller than Earth's Moon and is tidally locked. Jupiter's Great Red Spot (GRS) is a vast cyclonic storm system about three times the size of Earth when Voyager flew by. Since 1979, the GRS has continuously shrunk, slowly changing its shape from an oval to a circle. It is now a little over the size of the Earth only. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Kevin M. Gill
Questa boiata nucleare, dove un PROGETTO di una azienda diventa un MINIREATTORE spacciato per funzionante, illustra bene il concetto di “PATHOLOGICAL SCIENCE” (scienza patologica) usato negli studi di comunicazione per indicare finte “scoperte” nate da un finto “dibattito scientifico” che si svolge fuori dagli ambiti preposti a tale scopo (riviste scientifiche peer-reviewed) per svolgersi unicamente sui mass media. Un termine coniato dopo la bufala della FUSIONE FREDDA. #NoNuke#Scicomm
Dive into our April roundup, a collection of highlighted articles from different sources that illustrate the wide range of fields in which our scientists are excelling.
Whether teaming up with experts in whale communication or studying data from far-off moons, our scientists consistently uncover revolutionary findings.
VIDEO: https://youtu.be/85XbEPjKXUc
This month, two teams of astronomers announced the potential discovery of Dyson spheres in our galaxy. But have we truly found indicators of highly advanced civilizations? Join Dr. Franck Marchis and Dr. Lauren Sgro as they delve into these groundbreaking findings and their implications for SETI research.
#PPOD: Enjoy this aesthetically stunning picture and consider the latitude at which it was captured. This is Portonovo (45N), a small town near Mount Conero in the province of Ancona in Italy. (We had it pretty good in San Francisco - 37N with purple and green). This low latitude tells you the strength of that solar storm that just hit. In fact, aurorae were observed in the Caribbean! Before May 12, only the Carrington Event reached those latitudes. Credit: Michele Elisei
The SETI Institute’s 2024 Drake Awards ceremony took place last Thursday at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, honoring significant contributions to the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. This event brought together experts in astrobiology, astrophysics, nuclear physics, and signal processing.
New resource! 📣 Science is more than lab coats and beakers, so I've illustrated 18 science objects for you to use in your presentations and social media
Another “victim” of my sorting & clearing ahead of our move: five copies of my 1988 University of Edinburgh PhD thesis headed for recycling 😬✌️
But don’t panic: these are all water-damaged & I still have eight clean copies of the one hundred originally printed for me during my first postdoc at NASA Goddard 🚀🛰️
The rest were circulated to colleagues back in the early days of infrared arrays in astronomy 🔭
p.s. Let me know if you have a copy: I suspect that at least few people here on Mastodon do.
I’d offer to share the rest, but I think it’s fair to say that the work on infrared array detector characterisation, data simulation, & early near-IR imaging of the Orion Nebula have been rather, err, surpassed 🙀
🐚 Connaissez-vous les "laisses de mer" ? Il s'agit des débris naturellement déposés sur les plages par les vagues et le vent, dont l'accumulation constitue un véritable écosystème.
🎨 J'en ai illustré quelques-uns des éléments, dont certains sont de véritables petits trésors qu'on peut s'amuser à dénicher et répertorier !
@AdamBishop Here in the States, nurses do the bulk of our healthcare. They deserve all the honorifics that we ascribe to doctors. Indeed I occasionally call them "doctor". I hope the translation confirms that nurses take pride in wearing their uniforms.
Save but a few noble exceptions in managed healthcare & research, we should downgrade the legacy status that doctors here have benefited from for years.
@pabloniusmonk It does confirm that nurses take pride in wearing their uniforms, and that they take that pride with them when they change out of their uniforms, but also that there is a perceived lack of recognition from society. They were suddenly appreciated during the Covid peak, and then that appreciation rapidly dropped off. Here's to appreciating the work of nurses! 👏